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After raising $10M, Breeze breathes fresh air into a stagnant disability insurance market

TechCrunch

Enter Omaha, Nebraska-based Breeze , the company Nabity started in 2019 with Cody Leach to enable individuals to go online and complete in 10 minutes the application process to receive a personalized quote for either disability insurance or critical illness insurance. market for disability insurance was valued at $19.1

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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare

TechCrunch

After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents like health payers, providers and employer groups. In addition, Tan believes that what Truepill is doing in the direct-to-consumer market is giving people choices. “We

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Indonesian fintech startup Ayoconnect raises $13m more in Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

In a statement, the startup said it the fresh capital will enable it to continue building out a leadership team and to invest in product and technology development. Founded in 2016, Ayoconnect is Southeast Asia’s largest Open Finance API platform.

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Spend management platform Teampay expands partnership with Mastercard, raises $47M

TechCrunch

In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay , a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for companies. Hoag notes that Teampay is low-code and doesn’t require custom development. Image Credits: Teampay.

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Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion

TechCrunch

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. The San Francisco-based company previously raised $18 million in a Series B round in March. Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe

TechCrunch

With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents. By way of using APIs, Root is helping businesses and developers launch insurance products faster than the traditional way. Hopley launched Root in 2016 to cater to this need.

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Go-to-Market Tactics for Category-Defining Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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